David Gerard
the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
7·3 days agothe way in was the IT department. chromebooks are interchangeable and semidisposable, which solved many problems for them. even then the vendors had to build special education versions that would survive the litttle dears throwing them down a stairwell.
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Google cuts off search if schools block AIEnglish
74·3 days agothis is like the guys on mastodon who mention libreoffice at every opportunity
do you honestly think anyone reading this post hasn’t heard of duckduckgo
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Proton Mail goes full AI slop, Tuta starts going slopEnglish
14·7 days agotell me you didn’t read without saying you didn’t read
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TechTakes@awful.systems•CoreWeave founders cash out — the rest is mop-upEnglish
121·18 days agoif only there were links that answered the question
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•The AI Photoshop clones: interface mockups that don’t workEnglish
2·23 days agothe video push reeks of paid promotion
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•So, what are the new datacenters even for?English
5·23 days agotante thinks come the bubble pop, surveillance bureaucracy will buy the now cheap rigs, cos they have a use for that much ML compute
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTOEnglish
4·25 days agomacro-microdosing
Silicon Valley makes a lot more sense if you first assume everyone rich is off their fucking tree
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TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
4·25 days agoNot convinced that makes any substantive difference.
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•AI game demo is going broke on just 430 playersEnglish
2·25 days agowhaaat? I’m not seeing that in my channel interface and it’s not showing as such in a private window. What are you seeing?
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
SneerClub@awful.systems•What's a good name for an anti-TESCREAL nonprofit?English
9·1 month agogetting there, tho i fear the New Atheist failure mode
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·1 month agoposting before lifting a finger is not welcome here
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•US nearly attacks Chinese ship based on AI hallucinationEnglish
7·2 months agowhat were the other two?
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
8·2 months agogyges is a LW regular who believes in the AI doomsday and speaks fluent rationalist but totally is not one, how dare you
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•ChatGPT ads: media agencies are ‘underwhelmed’English
6·2 months agoOpenAI were originally selling the ads at premium prices, this is the ad guys saying “these perform like trash mate”
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TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
6·2 months agothey’re a fucking plage on the fedi right now, bots asking for masto accounts
there’s also a cryptocurrency, which may or may not actually be them
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
5·2 months agomost popular sci fi of 1993, how dare a philosopher name mind-body dualism after such a classic
David Gerard@awful.systemsOPMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Ghost in the Machine is on PBS YouTube for the US! (and Korea for some reason)English
3·2 months agoare you sure you’re tall enough for this ride
David Gerard@awful.systemsMto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th September 2026English
4·2 months agomy first guess is some sort of weird sci fi eugenics





















fiiixed thank you